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Interest Rates Remain Near Record Highs
Read moreInterest rates continue to surge, hitting new post-financial crisis records. Over the past month, yields on the ten-year Treasury note have risen more...
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Tim Scott's Proposal for Cutting Spending, Cutting Government, and Cutting Taxes
Read moreGOP presidential candidate and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) recently unveiled a comprehensive economic plan, titled “ Build. Don’t Borrow." The plan is...
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Congress Avoids a Shutdown, But Leaves Much More to Be Done
Read moreThe House and Senate have approved a Continuing Resolution (CR) that funds the government at Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations levels and avoids a...
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CRFB Reacts to Proposed Fiscal Commission
Read moreToday, Bipartisan Fiscal Forum Co-Chairs Representatives Bill Huizenga (R-MI) and Scott Peters (D-CA) proposed bipartisan legislation to establish a...
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It's Time for A Bipartisan Fiscal Commission
Read moreThe national debt is on an unsustainable path, interest costs are exploding, and the Social Security and Medicare trust funds are approaching...
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Maya MacGuineas: Finally, a Serious Idea to Address the National Debt
Read moreMaya MacGuineas is president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and head of the Campaign to Fix the Debt. She recently wrote an opinion...
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Revised Projections from CBO, OMB, & Fed Give Hope of “Soft Landing”
Read moreRecent economic forecasts from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the Federal Reserve (Fed) present...
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Medicaid Provider Taxes Inflate Federal Matching Funds
Read moreThis paper is part of a series on Medicaid financing. Other papers in the series discuss an overview of state financing schemes and supplemental...
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More Deficit-Increasing Tax Cuts from the Ways & Means Committee
Read moreTomorrow, the House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to mark up two bills to expand Health Savings Accounts (HSAs). The bills will reduce revenue...
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87% Chance of Shutdown, Per CRFB Budget Experts' Poll
Read moreThe odds of a government shutdown, per the unscientific CRFB Budget Experts' Poll, have shot up to 87 percent (after dropping one expert's prediction...
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Kent Conrad and Rob Portman: It isn’t hopeless. We can fix our debt and deficit problems.
Read moreKent Conrad is a former senator, former Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, and a director of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Rob...
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The High Cost of Borrowing at Low Rates
Read moreFederal interest spending is on track to nearly double between 2020 and 2023 and projected to double again by 2032, due to rising interest rates and a...